Universal Pictures’ Get Out is not a funny movie. Yes, Jordan Peele is a funny guy: Born and raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, he performed with Chicago's famed Second City troupe and later joined the cast of “MADtv,” where he met Keegan-Michael Key; their Comedy Central series “Key &...

Sure, there are lots of high-school kids making movies—they're shooting on their phones and posting to YouTube, doing mini-projects for class, or even borrowing a DV camera and making little scripted vignettes. And anyone who cares knows that Steven Spielberg started out making 8mm pictures in...